The Three Harriets and Others by Glenis Redmond

$14.99

 

Redmond has shifted herself in powerful persona for The Three Harriets & Others. Each voice is urgent and determined to survive, to find ways “to worship and swim” out of the spirit-crushing compromises forced upon slaves in the early centuries of America. Most notable are the Harriets—artistry and ingenuity meet desperation as each shape shifts to make it to freedom. We encounter a Tubman who seems to be delivering instruction for how to change ourselves into the night as she slips “into owl or hawk. Turn tree trunk. Become de hound chasing” on the underground railroad. Redmond presents survival as transformation in these powerful portraits. The need for this book is unmistakable, as Redmond drops us right through the “blue black” heart of escape.

–Amber Flora Thomas, author of Eye of Water: Poems

 

The Three Harriets & Others reimagine the agency and ancestral urgency of Black foremothers. Glenis Redmond raises her/their voices with fierce unflinching and unapologetic poetics. These poems offer an ancient, unshackled breath that allows them to “Spill ink like night clouds that clot what your soul cannot hold.”

–Jaki Shelton Green, NC Poet Laureate

 

The words of the Harriets and Others created by Glenis Redmond, provide readers with a powerful insight into the life and times of three resilient African American Women.

–Dr. Lynnette Overby, University of Delaware

 

Redmond’s The Three Harriets and Others  elevates the conductor of the Underground Railroad, the first published Black novelist, and a young woman known for her haunting slave narrative in North Carolina. Glenis is a South Carolina poet, and a quilter. These poems quench the thirst for the stories that should be essential as water.”

–Dr. Tara Betts, author of Break the Habit

 

 

 

 

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The Three Harriets and Others

by Glenis Redmond

$14.99, paper

978-1-64662-774-5

2022

Glenis Redmond is an award-winning poet and teaching artist from South Carolina She travels nationally and internationally performing and conducting poetry workshops. She has been literary community leader for twenty-eight years. Glenis is also Kennedy Center Teaching Artist in Washington DC and a Cave Canem alumni. She has been the mentor poet for the National Student Poets Program since 2014. In the past she prepared these exceptional youth poets to read at the Library of Congress, the Department of Education, and for First Lady Michelle Obama at The White House.

In 2020 Glenis was awarded South Carolina’s highest award, The Governor’s Award for the Arts through the South Carolina Arts Commission. Glenis will be inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors in the Spring of 2022.

She is a North Carolina Literary Fellowship Recipient and helped to create the first Writer-in-Residence at the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site in Flat Rock, North Carolina. Her work has been showcased on NPR and PBS and has been most recently published in Orion Magazine, The New York Times, The North Carolina Literary Review, Obsidian Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora, StorySouth, About Place and Carolina Muse.

Other than The Three Harriets coming out with Finishing Line Press in 2021, Glenis has three books of poetry published: Backbone (Underground Epics), Under the Sun (Main Street Rag) What My Hand Say (Press 53). Her fourth book, The Listening Skin will be published by Four Way Books in 2022. Also in next year, she will have collaborative book with Dr. Gabrielle Foreman and Dr. Lynnette Overby published by the University of Georgia Press, Praise Songs for Dave the Potter, art by Jonathan Green and the Poetry of Glenis Redmond

 

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